Capital One Arena has a new intermission game during the Capitals home games.

Picture a real-life game of Pac-Man, where players are donuts who have to run around the ice collecting coffee cups to score points. But be careful! Don’t get caught by the donut chomper and you’ll lose all yer points.

The game is played using an interactive projection onto the ice and is the first of its kind being rolled out by Dunkin’ Donuts.

The Washington Capitals celebrated Pride Night at Capital One Arena Monday during their game against the Los Angeles Kings.

As part of Hockey Is For Everyone month, a number of Capitals players, led by Braden Holtby, taped up their stick blades with rainbow-colored Pride Tape and used the tape in warmups to acknowledge members of the LGBTQ community.

Trade deadline acquisitions don’t always work out. Capitals forward Dustin Penner was one recent example. But now we may know more of a reason why.

After being acquired from Anaheim a day before the 2014 trade deadline, the hulking forward played just 18 games for the Caps during the final month and a half of the 2013-14 season. Thought to be a potential top-six player by George McPhee, Penner spent most of his time either scratched or in the bottom six, scoring just one goal and two assists. The Caps would go on to miss the playoffs that year for the first time since 2007-08.

Recently, Penner was a guest on the Spittin’ Chiclets podcast and revealed a workers’ compensation claim that he is pursuing after allegedly breaking his neck and continuing to play for the Capitals.

Hockey came to Capitol Hill Wednesday morning with the 2019 Hockey Day on the Hill. The bipartisan Congressional Hockey Caucus held a congressional briefing in conjunction with the NHL to discuss how hockey is growing its impact through a connection to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in schools.

The NHL showcased its Future Goals program, which is an ongoing partnership with education technology company EVERFI. Backed by a $20 million commitment by the NHL, the program has engaged over two million students in the country since 2014.

After the briefing, students from two local schools had the opportunity to try out a few of the EVERFI lesson modules as well as a hands-on beginner hockey skills clinic with Olympic gold medalist Haley Skarupa.